Pierre LeBrun via twitter: LeBrun spoke with Shea Weber who said that GM Poile talked to him about 3 weeks ago about possibility of Radulov returning. He wanted to make sure it wouldn’t rock the boat in the dressing room. Weber and the other team leaders told Poile to go for it as it would be great for the team.
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